Visa Stories
This volume introduces the visa narrative, a new literary genre recovering migrant voices. Through powerful testimonies, it counters the myth of global free movement, revealing a stark reality of immobility, distrust, and misunderstanding.
This anthology explores how theatre functions at the interstices of local and global networks. It offers diverse critical viewpoints to argue that the local and global should not be regarded in opposition but as entangled, a potent force of expression and resistance.
The 1960s in Australia
The 1960s is a heavily mythologised decade. This collection challenges that myth, showing that not everyone in Australia experienced it the same way. Expert historians explore the complex social realities, power, and politics of this significant time.
Modernising Agrifood Chains in China
China faces major challenges in agricultural development. While it seeks to fast-track high-value agrifood chains, this book’s case study finds a more viable and inclusive strategy is to incrementally develop mid-value chains through facilitative policies.
The Body Unbound
A philosophical inquiry into politics, embodiment, and religion confronts notorious contemporary issues, from suicide bombing to biopolitics. Contributors uncover resources to unbind a body which has been doubly bound by history, law, and culture.
Just Images
This collection of essays explores the role ethics plays in the study of moving images. Scholars discuss how film engages with history, politics, trauma, and representations of the Other to reshape our thoughts on subjects like terrorism and conflict.
In today’s crime fiction, women are the criminals, not just the victims. The genre forsakes the simple “whodunnit,” instead exploring the lure of violence and leaving a chilling sense of unrest.
Reconceptualising the Divide
Despite vibrant economic relations, Sino-Japanese relations remain strained. This book focuses on the neglected “ideational” forces—memories, identities, and nationalism—that synthesize with domestic politics to shape the future of these two giants.
Storm and Dissonance
This collection of essays explores the darker side of L.M. Montgomery’s fiction and life writing. Her gentle landscapes and optimistic stories often contain undercurrents of anger, loss, and violence, providing new insights into her complex work.
Studying Language through Literature
This book invites readers to reconsider literary texts for language study. Arguing that literary language is language in its utmost form, it offers insights and suggestions on using fiction, poetry, drama, and translation for your greatest benefit.
This book explores the link between textual ideologies and real ideologies in Malaysian and Singaporean fiction. It introduces “ideological stylistics,” a linguistic approach to revealing themes of race, identity, and belonging in these literary traditions.
Constructing and Sharing Memory
Community Informatics uses information and communication technologies for positive social change, particularly with disadvantaged communities. This volume brings together valuable international perspectives on community memory, technologies, and societal good.
This book argues that if law is not underpinned by a moral understanding, the moral law itself is violated. It objects to impunity for those who contravene international peremptory criminal law, reaffirming universal principles of truth, equality, and the essential value of man.
Kathy Acker’s fictions prefigured our contemporary world. This collection of essays analyzes transnationalism in her work, locating her in current debates on postnationalism and global identity—a timely re-appraisal of an important American writer.
Perspectives on Creativity
This unique interdisciplinary volume examines creativity from multiple viewpoints. Contributions from writers, therapists, artists, and scholars explore the creative process, the psychology of artists, creativity in therapy, and its link to mood and perception.
Few subjects are more controversial or important to today’s world than the British Empire. Using case studies, this book examines how the Empire ended, how independence was won and resisted, and what its collapse tells us about its legacy.
This collection reconsiders the history of science in nineteenth-century Britain. Moving away from a Darwin-focused history, these interdisciplinary essays offer fresh insights into scientific development through history, religion, literature, and art.
Pursuits and Joys
This volume is a collection of updated papers exploring the remarkable Lukis family and their contemporaries. It examines their pioneering work and the evolution of archaeology as a discipline in the nineteenth century across Britain and Europe.
Sisters of Fate
Tracking the feminine principle in divination over three thousand years, this book explores the psychic vantage point of fate’s sisters. It examines the source of their visions within the Western concept of time, free will, and destiny.
This book reveals how Greek Enlightenment intellectuals forged a modern national identity. They reframed history to include Byzantium and transformed liberal Enlightenment ideas into a nationalist ideology, paving the way for the War of Independence in 1821.
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